HOME-START BARNET

Registered charity 1109550 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide support to families with at least one child under 5 years old

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a total surplus of £98,137 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds increasing to £170,468. Unrestricted funds stood at £95,224, which is below the Trustees' stated policy target of three months' future expenditure (£124,000). The Trustees have set a target to reach this reserve level over the next couple of years and have the situation under active review.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Home-Start Barnet, Brent, and Harrow (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Joanne Natalie Overtonchair
• Christina Bach
• Emma Louise Power
• Jodi Ann Zucker
• Karen Gubbay
• Peter Tsigarides

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Barnet · Brent · Enfield · Harrow

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE YOUNG BARNET FOUNDATION.

• THE YOUNG BARNET FOUNDATION income £1.2m
• HOME-START KERNOW income £528k
• HOME-START NORTH AND WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £270k
• HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER income £434k
• HOME-START SUTTON income £284k
• HOME-START NEWCASTLE BOROUGH income £149k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.